Buckeye 911 Family Entertainment

TRAVEL AREA
Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Akron, Toledo. Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Morgantown, Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville.

PRICING
Ohio: $250/2 hours: Out of state cities listed: $300/2 hours: $50 each additional hour up to six hours.

PAYMENT OPTIONS
Cash, check, credit card, Venmo, PayPal or Zelle can be accepted on the day of the event. If you want to Bitcoin, cars, houses and expensive jewelry would be nice too. (Just joking. You have to understand my humor)

PAPER OR PLASTIC
You can pay through Gigsalad or Buckeye 911 can bill you and accept payment on the day of the event UPON ARRIVAL. There is a $30-$50 additional fee for this service based on the total charge for the event. Basically it is the 10% fee that you would be bypassing by going "Off Books". Although I do offer the service once I have been paid by check then I add it as a "Booked Event" and you are then able to leave a review at that point. That's how you know that I am not cheating Gigsalad.

Why don't I add it immediately? Because I am paying your fee out of pocket before being paid myself and I stopped doing that when price checkers cancelled a few events because they got a better price and I had to go through a refund process with Gigsalad. There is a reason for everything!

REVIEWS
First of all may I say that not just for Buckeye911 but all other entertainers on this platform. We look forward to your "Five Star Review". And quickly too! We may appear to be enemies but we are not. We work together at times. I have had others cover for me when I was in the hospital and vice versa. And btw I regularly pray for all the entertainers in my area for blessings. I want them to be happy and working. Afterall I can't do every event myself and also if they are not working they will be undercutting prices. I believe in being affordable but not cheap. There is a difference.

Most reviews however come in about 30-40% of the total bookings if you are lucky. As a result you have to eyeball the results. Just because an entertainer has a lot of bookings (Which is good) but low on reviews, it doesn't mean they are a problem.

Take some time and read through some reviews sometime. It's amazing how often you will see tons of 5* reviews then "BOOM" they are flamed. And unless the entertainer has like 100 reviews it will take them 5-10 years to get back up again from someone who was just having a bad day.

SIMPLE VS DETAILED BALLOONS
Gigsalad in their own blog (Five questions to ask a balloon twister) explains that simple balloons are 20-25 balloons per hour and standard balloons are 10-15 balloons per hour.

However..... Buckeye911 is a speed twister and can twist 100+ balloons per hour in a busy situation. (Fairs, Trade shows, Auto shows, Home shows, Block parties, Birthday parties) He did 175 in an hour at the Pickerington 4th of July Festival about 1995 in a battle against five clowns working together when we all tried to steal the show for having the best balloons. And he was mouth inflating at the time. No pump can match a good set of lungs! To put it into perspective,.....

BIRTHDAY PARTY OR FESTIVAL
He can do 100 dogs , swords and hearts in an hour if he needs to. Please understand that he doesn't get hired by people who see him do dogs and swords because everybody does dogs and swords. But he understands budget friendly events.

CORPORATE EVENT OR PICNIC
50 two balloon creations in an hour. Or roughly 33 three balloon creations in an hour. Or 20 five balloon creations in an hour depending of course on how many guests you have at your event.

When your budget allows this is where you want to be. Eye popping creations. People going wild. Drooling and having their pictures taken together because of the creations floating around.

THE REAL WORLD
Most balloon twisters are in the business because they want to have fun themselves. But they forget that they are being paid to bring fun to the party. Sometimes we just need to put our feelings aside especially with what we charge to work. (Different explanation and justifiable).

HE BRINGS FUN TO THE PARTY
Buckeye911 has been known to sing at events (Very off key of course) and embarrass guests by dressing them up as Batman or the Flying Nun and having them run around and save the world or catch a gust of wind and fly away. Or dress a girl up as a princess or a boy as a pirate.

WHEN THINGS ARE SLOW
When he is at a busy event and has a slow time he takes advantage of that time to inflate and restock his available balloons for the next gust of guests
That's why he is the professional afterall.

Buckeye911 started in entertainment in 1975 at Disneyland. He was working in America on Parade and dressed in several different types of characters. As an employee he was allowed to go inside the park daily for free and would watch Wally Boag in the "Golden Horseshoe Review" do his thing with balloons. That is where he got his desire for balloons.

APPEARANCE
There are two things that a good balloon twister should never run out of. Balloons and air.

He is a professional balloon twister with a tote stocked with 3000 balloons. Two to three battery pumps that each last 6+ hours. A clean and sanitary workplace with clean tools and supplies. He doesn't allow people to touch his balloons until handed to them or his tools as they are clean. He brings plenty of sanitizer to keep his hands clean.

WHILE WORKING
As a child his father told him son, one day you are going to grow up and get a job and move out on your own. Your not going to live with me your whole life. He decided from a young age that if he was going to have to work for a living he might as well do something he enjoyed.

Buckeye911 is a clean interactive entertainment with jokes and stories and more as he entertains your guests with colorful and shapely creations. He is a speed twister that moves fast at 100+ simple balloons per hour. He is a stationary entertainment and works from a table.

TANGO911
Tango911 is my baby. I own the domain even though it is not active on the Internet. I am protecting the name until such a time that I can do a great website.

However, Buckeye911 does offer special deals for first responder departmental events with a purchase order. Just ask for more information.